Toxic Blooms Are a Public Health Risk and Increase Water Treatment Costs
The waters in Clear Lake, the second largest in California, shelter a treacherous occupant -- potentially toxic blooms of cyanobacteria. The harmful algal blooms are a threat to public health,...
View ArticleOpinion: California Must Take Action on Chronic Disease Among Children of Color
The upward trend in childhood chronic disease in California is threatening the health of the next generation, and racial disparities in those diseases are stark evidence of the deep impact that racism...
View ArticleAnalysis: As a Parent of a Medically Fragile Child, How I’ve Learned to Stay...
Parents of children with fragile, medically complex disabilities are expected to provide the same level of care during emergencies that intensive care units provide, but they’re expected to do it in...
View ArticleOpinion: The Importance of Fitness in a Post-Pandemic World
The past year has taken a toll on the physical and mental health of millions of Californians. While we were rightly focused on slowing the spread of the pandemic, widespread shutdowns brought about a...
View ArticleTaking a Stand: How Teens Are Working to End Relationship Violence
Hundreds of young people across California are sparking conversations in their schools and communities about what healthy relationships should look like and how to recognize abusive behaviors. The...
View ArticleOpinion: An Equitable COVID-19 Recovery Requires Renewed Public Health...
As a second-generation public health nurse, I can assure you another crisis will inevitably come. It could be a wildfire, poor air quality, extreme heat, another disease outbreak, an earthquake or...
View ArticleThe Central California Town That Keeps Sinking
In California’s San Joaquin Valley, the farming town of Corcoran has a multimillion-dollar problem. It is almost impossible to see, yet so vast it takes NASA scientists using satellite technology to...
View ArticleVolunteer Pilots Connect Remote Areas to Advanced Medical Treatment
An estimated 3.6 million Americans are unable to receive medical care each year due to transportation challenges. A nonprofit organization of volunteer pilots called Angel Flight West is working to...
View ArticleOpinion: Accurate Patient Data is Key to Reducing Health Disparities,...
To transform the future of health care, we must understand current care. This is especially true when it comes to addressing the multiple socioeconomic and other factors that drive health disparities....
View ArticleOpinion: California Has Opportunity to Close Racial Health Gap
The California Black Women’s Health Project and other health and racial justice organizations are grateful to the California Legislature for supporting our bold proposal to fund community programs...
View ArticleSome Kids in Long-Term Care Facilities Didn’t See Parents for More Than a Year
Throughout the pandemic, medically fragile children in California’s pediatric long-term care facilities and their parents have endured drastic limits on their ability to see and interact with each...
View ArticleAnalysis: The Case for Defunding the Police
Local governments invest a huge percentage of their budgets in policing, often to the detriment of other community services. Yet the results of this enormous taxpayer outlay are mediocre at best....
View ArticleOpinion: We Need Clear, Fact-Based Guidance to Recover from Trump’s Public...
Years of xenophobic rhetoric and anti-immigrant policies have fostered deeply entrenched fears and widespread misinformation that keep immigrants from accessing critical resources. We need a proactive,...
View ArticleOpinion: Countering COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy Among Pregnant African Americans
While the benefits of vaccination far outweigh the minimal risks, and data collected from pregnant women who have taken the COVID-19 vaccine so far has been overwhelmingly positive, vaccine hesitancy...
View ArticleAnalysis: Care for Children with Disabilities Is Infrastructure, Too. Let’s...
As federal and state policy makers make plans for infrastructure and budgetary spending, let’s not forget to invest in the infrastructure of care too, particularly for children with disabilities. The...
View ArticleOpinion: Federal Case Threatens California Dialysis Patients’ Access to...
California Gov. Gavin Newsom and the state Legislature, with the best of intentions, enacted AB 290 to protect dialysis patients from predatory insurance practices that seem harmful to patients. But...
View ArticleOpinion: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Is Helping Young People Find Purpose...
During my nearly 15 years as an adolescent psychiatrist, I have worked with hundreds of young people and their families. But, until last year, I had not seen hopelessness so prevalent in young people....
View ArticleThe Pandemic Spurred a Domestic Violence Epidemic. It’s Not Over Yet.
Since the pandemic began, California organizations that serve domestic violence survivors report getting more requests for help than ever before and hearing more stories of extreme abuse. Rather than...
View ArticleOpinion: Newsom Plan Responds to Crisis, Supports Vulnerable Youth
While the devastating impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on our oldest Californians is well known, the pandemic also has caused widespread emotional suffering among California’s children and youth. Out of...
View ArticleOpinion: Investing in ‘Public Health, Health Equity and Racial Justice’ Is...
Community-based organizations have been a critical anchor in historically marginalized neighborhoods. They work tirelessly on the frontlines with public health departments to get important, timely...
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